All Saints Day.....are you a Saint?

Question

Nov 01, 2007
All Saints Day!


Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

Question: What do you call a "fellow citizen with an American"?

Answer: An American

Question: What do you call a "fellow citizen with a saint"?

Answer: A saint.

In short, if you believe in Jesus, you are a saint. Enjoy your Feast
Day! And if you haven't been acting too saintly, God is quite willing to
accept a change of heart and help you become what you are!

Answer 1

I agree.

Saints are people in heaven or on their way to heaven. All Christians dead and alive are saints.

The Catholic Church selects some of the most extraordinary examples, does in-depth research, and canonizes them.

"By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors."

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 828: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#828

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Ephesians 2:19 is a perfect example of why I consider myself a saint.

There are many scriptures that disprove the teaching that one HAS to be dead to be a saint. These scriptures show the "Saints" alive and well. Acts 9:13, Acts 9:32, Acts 9:41, Acts 26:10, Romans 1:7, Romans 8:27, Romans 12:13, Romans 15:25, Romans 15:26, Romans 16:2. I'll stop here but there are many more references to Saints being alive. Just run a search.

With that being said, I do not recognize nor celebrate all saints day. Although I recognize and appreciate the saints of the early church, many gave their lives and died horrible deaths so that we would honor and celebrate Christ, not them.

Not trying to put anyone else down, just giving thoughts on the subject.

Answer 3

In short, As a Roman Catholic, I too will have to agree with the answer from abuela, I know other religions do not believe as Roman Catholic's do but since it is a day that was started by the Roman Catholic Church, I will have to agree with their defination of what the day means. It is not my Feast Day either. I believe thatThe Old Catholic Church that is in schism with the Pope may not beleive in the commuion of saints,or All Saint Day. In a perfect world people would not confuse the churchs. It just makes for non catholic not to know what we belive as RomanC.In a perfect world people wouldn't just claim they're catholic and then let be, they would identify themself as either Old Catholic, or Roman Catholic.
I too aspire to be a saint.

Answer 4

"Saint is being used in two ways. When people return to reading scripture in great detail,they noted that Paul addressed the congregation and the people in them as"saints"meaning they were baptized into Christ, now gifted with new life. IN course of church history , this usage fell out......and "saints" came to mean the people who have died and gone to God;they were intercessors, like Francis and Clare, The notion of All Saints Day
We are members of the communion of '"saint", we are on earth. When we say communion we identify ourselves as kin to those who have gone before and finished the race.But we still have a long way to go . We share in God's holiness because we have the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but it hardly means we are without vices or sin.So, we need purification,so that our sanctification can grow into greater virtue, sort of like a seed of holiness implanted in us which need to grow into maturrity, bt fits and starts. Believing in Jesus hardly does us any good unless we follow his footsteps, imitate him and his mother in our journey of faith. That is the work of sanctification. We have not finished the race.We are sure not those who have finished the race...I too aspire to be a saint. Commuion of saints KIN

Answer 5

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Answer 6

In short, all Christians aspire to become saints, that is, persons in heaven.Since,I am not died nor in heaven I am not yet a saint..I do believe in Jesus I also do my best to be saintly. Thank you but today is not my Feast Day
The early Church, Christians would celebrate the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ (known as the saint's "birth day") by serving an All-Night Vigil, and then celebrating the Eucharist over their tomb or place of martyrdom.To have a place of martyrdom one must be died
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Origin: of All Saint's Day(memorial day)All Saints Day is a Celebration of the lives of thoses Holy men and women who have died...

What makes this feast so important that the Catholic Church celebrates both the night before All Saints and the day after it?
The Church has always honored those early witnesses to the Christian faith who have died in the Lord. (The Greek word for "witness" is martyr.) During the first three hundred years Christians were serverly persecuted, often suffering torture and bloody death -- because they were faithful . They refused to deny Christ, even when this denial might have saved their own lives, or the lives of their children and families.

The early history of the Church is filled with stories of the heroic faith of these of witnesses to Christ's truth. The stories of these saints -- these baptized Christians of all ages and all states in life, whose fidelity and courage led to their sanctity or holiness -- have provided models for every other Christian throughout history.

Many of those especially holy people whose names and stories were known, the Church later canonized (that is, the Church formally recognized that the life of that person was without any doubt holy, or sanctified -- a "saint" who is an example for us.) The Church's calendar contains many saint's days, which Catholics observe at Mass -- some with special festivities.

But there were thousands and thousands of early Christian martyrs, the majority of whose names are known only to God -- and throughout the history of the Church there have been countless others who really are saints, who are with God in heaven, even if their names are not on the list of canonized saints.

In order to honor the memory -- and our own debt -- to these unnamed saints, and to recall their example, the Church dedicated a special feast day -- a "memorial day" -- so that all living Christians would celebrate at a special Mass the lives and witness of those "who have died and gone before us into the presence of the Lord".

This feast that we know as All Saint's Day originated as a feast of All Martyrs, sometime in the 4th century. At first it was celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost. It came to be observed on May 13 when Pope St. Boniface IV (608-615) restored and rebuilt for use as a Christian church an ancient Roman temple which pagan Rome had dedicated to "all gods", the Pantheon. The pope re-buried the bones of many martyrs there, and dedicated this Church to the Mother of God and all the Holy Martyrs on May 13, 610.

About a hundred years later, Pope Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a new chapel in the basilica of St. Peter to all saints (not just to the martyrs) on November 1, and he fixed the anniversary of this dedication as the date of the feast.

A century after that, Pope Gregory IV (827-844) extended the celebration of All Saints to November 1 for the entire Church.

The vigil of this important feast, All Saint's Eve, Hallowe'en, was apparently observed as early as the feast itself.

Ever since then -- for more than a millennium -- the entire Church has celebrated the feast of All Saints on November 1st, and, of course, Hallowe'en on October 31.

It is a principal feast of the Catholic Church. It is a holy day of obligation, which means that all Catholics are to attend Mass on that day.

Answer 7

A Saint is someone who is dedicated to Christ.

Have faith dear friends in God.

Romans 10:9
John 3:16

Answer 8

Church Militant!